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I live and blog in Ann Arbor, Michigan. University of Michigan BA and MA from Eastern Michigan University. One term in the Michigan Army National Guard. The Institute of Land Warfare, Army magazine, Infantry Magazine, Military Review, Naval Institute Proceedings, and Joint Force Quarterly have published my occasional articles.

The Undead Archives

My undead archives pre-Blogger were actually restored to life after Geocities sites went dark. Start at the old home page here.
If you find a link to the old site on the current site or old site, you should be able to replace the "g" in "geocities" with an "r" and make a good link.
Another archived site is here.
It replaces the ".com" with ".ws".
I hope to move all the older archives here (and started that project) but it is really tedious.

Saturday, November 14, 2015

Who They Fight

At the last Democratic debate, the candidates (excepting Webb) had a jolly time listing what type of Republican is on their enemies list, to the delight of the audience.

President Obama played the “religion card” during his news conference this morning by accusing some Republicans of “feeding the notion” that the War on Terror as a “war against Islam.” It was a clear attempt to sidestep the Saturday Democratic presidential debate in which all three candidates declined to name “radical Islam” as the enemy even after CBS News moderator John Dickerson made it very clear he wasn’t referring to all Muslims.

This approach didn’t impress the Morning Joe panel on liberal MSNBC. Co-host Joe Scarborough was scathing: “How stupid do they think we are? How stupid? Nobody’s calling all Muslims terrorists. Nobody’s suggesting the majority of Muslims are terrorists . . . We ask Democrats, top Democratic leaders to come on and everybody was busy today. Nobody wanted to talk about what poses a real threat to Western civilization and you have Democrats . . . Why can’t you call radical Islam radical Islam?”

Yes. Unless all Moslems actually are radical Moslems, why refrain from calling the enemy radical Moslems? I mean, as everyone always likes to remind us, these fanatics kill more Moslems than anybody else.

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Note on site statistics: When I strip out the junk hits from Blogger statistics that seem to come and go in waves, I appear to have about 10,000 hits per month.

My old statistics package, Site Meter, seems to miss a lot and even disappears visits after they've appeared.

I just added a new StatCounter. So far it shows far fewer hits than Blogger and is more in line with Site Meter. But I suspect neither of the non-Blogger statistics register hits from social media. So I'm not sure what my audience size is. It is puzzling to me.